Mid-Market / Tenderloin

People often scream “build it and they will come” when talking about luring tenants to new developments. But for the brand-new shopping center said to be a catalyst for revitalizing Mid-Market – somebody built it, but nobody came.
6×6, originallyRead More »

Directors Susan Stryker and Victor Silverman’s award winning documentary, The Screaming Queens: The Riot at Compton’s Cafeteria, tells the forgotten story of the first collective act of militant resistance to the social oppression of queer people in the United States–aRead More »

(Ed Note: This is the second in a series where Tenderloin residents and workers who oppose the lack of geographic equity in the city’s allocation of homeless services)
As the debate rages on over a 24-hour homeless drop-in center comingRead More »

Ed Note: This is the first in a series on Tenderloin opposition to a city proposal that ignores geographic equity in the distribution of homeless services.
At 5 a.m. every weekday the owners of Turk and Larkin Deli open theirRead More »

Don Herron, whose tours of Dashiell Hammett’s San Francisco have been a tourist must do since 1977, comes to the Tenderloin Museum on July 13 for a truly special event. Herron will both discuss legendary Tenderloin author Dashiell Hammett andRead More »

The Tenderloin Museum recovers the lost history of a great American neighborhood. Tonight, it displays the heretofore unseen photography and ephemera of Peter Fortuna, whose remarkable life ultimately brought him to the Tenderloin neighborhood.
“Peter Fortuna: A Tenderloin Story” offersRead More »

Rio Scharf, organizer for the Tenderloin Housing Clinic’s Central City SRO Collaborative (CCSROC), leaves the gritty streets of the Tenderloin next week for a new neighborhood: the green pastures of Harvard Law School. Scharf follows in the footsteps of hisRead More »

Believe it or not, San Francisco’s Tenderloin neighborhood has entered its second decade in its quest for safer and slower two-way streets.
The Board of Supervisors passed the Eddy-Ellis two-way streets measure in 2007. Mayor Lee and D6 Supervisor JaneRead More »